Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant
eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we
outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.
- [Associates]

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented.
Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
- [Contentment]

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate
straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil
the brave. For cowards the road of desertion should be left
open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.
The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an encumbrance when once the
sword is drawn.
- [Courage]

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be,
that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
- [Prejudice]

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism.
Was, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It
dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.
- [War]

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate
what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we
most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of
action carries with it an incalculable influence.
- [Example]

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid
self-consciousness.
- [Sensibility]

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we
walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into
the shade.
- [Friendship]